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No gas loadshedding in next winter season: Nawaz Monday, March 03, 2014 LAHORE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that there will be no gas loadshedding in the next winter season as the government was making elaborate arrangements to cope with the crisis. He said that the government...

Attack on anti-polio teams avenged Mullah Tamanche’s hideouts shelled, five terrorists killed BARA: Five militants were killed on Sunday when the army’s gunship helicopters shelled their hideouts in various areas of Bara Tehsil in Khyber Agency, official sources said. The shelling by...

Monday, March 03, 2014 ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Sunday announced suspension of air strikes on the Taliban but said that any attack would be retaliated.In a written statement, the interior minister said the government took the announcement of suspension of...

KARACHI: Police have seized an explosion-laden vehicle reportedly prepared for targeting a key political or police figure. According to reports, acting on tip of a federal intelligence agency and the Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the Sindh Police recovered the vehicle in Mauripur area...

Pakistan launched on Wednesday production of an improved version of JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif performed the inauguration of the manufacturing of Block 2 of JF-17 at Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in the town of Kamra. Block 2 jets come with air-to-air...

MANDI BAHAUDDIN: A training jet of a private company crashed near Mandi Bahauddin on Thursday, Geo News reported. SHO Shafqat Butt has confirmed the report and said that the plane crashed in Qadirabad area. Casualties are feared in the crash, the police officer added. Training aircraft of...

NAIROBI: Somalia's Shebab insurgents claimed Wednesday 137 hostages they had seized died in a Nairobi shopping mall siege, figures impossible to verify and higher than the number of people officially registered as missing. The Al-Qaeda-linked fighters, in a message posted on Twitter, said...

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Interior, Rehman Malik Monday claimed that the backbone of proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has been cracked. "If Punjab government launches a crackdown on the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the scourge of terrorism could be eliminated," Rehman Malik said...

KARACHI: The violence, that broke out after some of Abbas Town victims were laid to rest, has claimed at least three lives, while it left 25 others injured across Pakistan's commercial center, Karachi, on Monday, Geo News reported. Reports have it that Gunmen shot and killed three people...

KARACHI: At least 45 people including women and children were killed and over 140 others sustained injuries after a powerful blast ripped through a densely populated area near Abbas Town, Health Department of Sindh said Sunday. According to sources, the perpetrators used a remote-detonated...

Uploaded with ImageShack.us ISLAMABAD: The Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority has notified an upward revision in petroleum products prices, Geo News reported. The new prices take effect from March 1, 2013(Thursday midnight). According to the notification issued, the petrol has been made...

Uploaded with ImageShack.us KARACHI: Pakistan on Tuesday successfully paid the 10th installment amounting to SDR 258.4 million equivalent to US $391.8 million on account of Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said spokesman State Bank of Pakistan. With the...

NEW YORK: Flamboyant Australian tycoon Clive Palmer unveiled his plan Tuesday for building a perfect replica of the Titanic -- plus a lot of extra lifeboats. More than a century after the original, supposedly unsinkable ocean liner hit an iceberg and went down in the North Atlantic, Palmer says...

QUETTA: An earthquake of moderate intensity jolted parts Quetta, Sibi and Bolan districts of Balochistan province early on Wednesday. The magnitude of the earthquake was 4.6 on the Richter scale. No casualty was reported, sources said. Earthquake jolts Quetta, Sibi, Bolan - geo.tv

Russian meteor exploded with force of 30 Hiroshima bombs:cry: The meteor that streaked across the skies over Russia on Friday exploded with a force 30 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb, Nasa scientists have said. Telegraph staff and agencies 11:13AM GMT 16 Feb 2013 Comments365 Comments...

Malik Riaz DUBAI - An agreement has been signed between Abu Dhabi group chairman Shaikh Nahyan Bin Mubarik Alnahyan and Bahria Town’s ex-chairman Malik Riaz to build the tallest building in the world in Karachi. The agreement worth $45 billion will provide employment to 2.5 million people in...

SAN FRANCISCO: Google fired back at British telecom titan BT Group in US and British courts Wednesday, escalating a year-old patent battle. "We have always seen litigation as a last resort, and we work hard to avoid lawsuits," Google said in a statement. "But, BT has brought several...

PARIS: A genetically-engineered virus tested in 30 terminally-ill liver cancer patients significantly prolonged their lives, killing tumours and inhibiting the growth of new ones, scientists reported on Sunday. Sixteen patients given a high dose of the therapy survived for 14.1 months on...

RAWALPINDI: Unknown desperadoes holed-up in their den opened fire on policemen during a search operation here killing two including a Elite Force commando, Geo News reported Thursday night. Sources said a number of police pursuing a crackdown against outlaws came under a sniper fire in...

ISLAMABAD: A case has been registered under Section 320 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) against a US diplomat who ran down bikers on Thursday night, Geo News reported. “Under the said section, the American diplomat faces charges of unintentional murder, in this case killing by reckless...